Pollination and gene flow in chillies with Scirtothrips dorsalis as pollen vectors

Phytomorphology: An International Journal of Plant Morphology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 317-327

  Saxena, Poonam ^a   Vijayaraghavan, M R ^a   Sarbhoy, R K ^a,b   Raizada, Usha ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b AGRA COLLEGE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Chillies; Gene flow; Pollination; Thrips

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008550003     PISSN: 00319449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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